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** And pigs. Don't forget the pigs.

* This is part of the reason why ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fans love the series. The person in charge of it is a self-admitted fan of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', so he inserted ''a lot'' of [[Humongous Mecha]] tropes and references into the anime. [[Mix and Match|The resulting fusion]] of [[Magical Girl]]s and [[Humongous Mecha]] is [[Rule of Cool|very cool indeed]].

* [[Naoki Urasawa]] is a noted Germanophile, which is very noticeable giving the settings of his work: Large parts of ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', ''[[Master Keaton]]'', and ''[[Pluto]]'' are set in Germany.

* [[Antique Bakery|Yoshinaga Fumi's]] works are very well regarded for their nuanced and fully realized characters. Yet for some reason all of these characters, no matter their profession or past, share the ability to speak for paragraphs about all the little details behind the [[Food Porn|delicious, mouthwatering dishes]] that always pop up.

** Also there seems to be a tendency towards aircraft and anything in the air, and perhaps the military.

* Keiichi Sigsawa, author of ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' and ''[[Allison and Lillia]]'', goes out of his way to profile in entirely unnecessary detail every weapon and vehicle that comes up, regardless of whether it is important to the plot. And as if that weren't enough, even his ''pen name'' is based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20080205094632/http://www.sigsauer.com/Default.aspx a gun brand].

* If you couldn't tell from the series itself, Hiroyuki Imaishi, the director of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' said in an interview that he liked [[This Is a Drill|drills]] and wanted a show where they were the main character's weapon. This becomes either hilarious or creepy when you see his previous work, ''[[Dead Leaves]]'', where one guy has a giant drill (that's drawn just like the ones in TTGL because he's also the character designer for both) ''for a penis''.

* Most of the [[Viewers Are Geniuses|ridiculously hard to understand]] math and physics found around ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' (including an important in one of the later novels that is even ''illustrated'') stem from Nagaru Tanigawa (the author of the novels) being a math/physics buff.

** See ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' for something similar.

* Aside of uniforms and girls with hair decs, [[Hidekaz Himaruya]] loves bunnies.

* Shamelessly lampshaded by Ai Yazawa in her manga ''[[Gokinjo Monogatari]]'', about an arts high school populated by eccentric teens. "''In the Yazawa High School students have an unspoken agreement to dress in the most outrageous way possible. Why? Principal Ai Yazawa just loves outlandish clothes!''". Before becoming a mangaka, she wanted to be a fashion designer, and she's a hardcore fan of Vivienne Westwood. She also loves rock and punk music. It becomes glaringly obvious since ''all'' of her mangas feature [[Paradise Kiss|fashion designers]], [[Unlimited Wardrobe|massive amounts of different outfits]], designs lifted from Westwood, [[Nana|aspiring musicians and punk rockers]].

** Kubo is also a huge fashion fan and takes every opportunity to sketch his characters in many different fashion styles from Japanese garb to punk outfits, tracksuits and boxing gear. Even here, he often finds a way to insert music.

* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' author Tomoko Hayakawa practically admits in her author notes that she simply made a series full of stuff she likes: [[Bishonen]], J-rock performers, horror and gothic pop culture, and the [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style.

* Tsutomu Nihei, author of ''[[Blame]]''!, has an obvious obsession with architecture, post-humanism and cyborgs. The latter occasionally verges on fetish territory, and the former is [[Memetic Mutation|something of a running joke amongst his fans]].

* Akira Toriyama of [[Dragon Ball]] fame has a thing for vehicles. Give the Dragonball manga a lookthrough and count how many of the chapter cover pages not directly related to the storyline feature some kind of detailed vehicle.

* [[Kozue Amano]], the creator of [[Aria (manga)|Aria]] and [[Amanchu]] clearly has a thing for [[Scenery Porn]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Nobody complains,]] [[Doing It for the Art|for good reason.]]

* [[Kaoru Mori]] is an Anglophile. It definitely shows in the immense attention to the details of upstairs-downstairs dynamics, costume details and setting of [[Victorian Romance Emma]].

* Isuna Hasekura, author of the ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' novels, has a serious thing for economics. It features prominently in both of his works to date. In fact, he took the prize money he got for his first novel to the stock market and is currently writing a manga about day trading.

 

* In the days of silent films, studios used to hide their names in the set to guard against other studios stealing the scenes for their own films (and to defend against accusations thereof).

* [[Alfred Hitchcock]] would [[Creator Cameo|appear]] as a bystander in all of his films. When he found out that people would watch the films for his cameo, and get distracted from the story, he started making his appearance in the first few minutes.

* [[Sam Raimi]]'s [father's?] old Oldsmobile, dubbed "The Classic", is in many of his films. For example, it was Uncle Ben's car in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]''.

* [[Frank Capra]] and that crow.

* [[Martin Scorsese]]'s films often feature Catholic imagery, guilt-ridden protagonists, and the Madonna-Whore complex in regards to love interests.

* Film producer Jon Peters appears to really like [[Giant Spider]]s, as noted in our article on [[Executive Meddling]].

* [[Tim Burton]] has a few:

** [[Monster Clown|Scary clowns]], dark woods, tile floors...

** And Burton seems to have a thing for dogs, as there are some dropped into every one of his movies at some point.

* [[Kevin Smith]] always stuffs his films with his favorite things: [[Star Wars]], Jaws, hockey and comic book references, and talks about "unnatural" sex acts. He has a thing for [[Meganekko|girls with glasses]], brought on by his wife. There are also ''Degrassi'' references.

* Screenwriter/director Richard Curtis seems to have a thing for Americans. Aside from the ''[[Bridget Jones (film series)|Bridget Jones]]'' films, which were adapted from another medium and was a collaboration with several other writers, every theatrically released film he's ever written has been a British comedy featuring at least one American character, though that maybe due to the UK cinematic convention of having an inexplicable American in the cast to coax the US market.

** Ironically in ''[[Love Actually]]'' he has the British prime minister played by Hugh Grant give an epic [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to the American President played by Billy Bob Thornton.

* The films of [[Guillermo del Toro]] always include slime, aspects of clock punk (or at least, clocks), things in jars (often [[People Jars]]), and references to Roman Catholicism. The supernatural is extremely common, and he's also greatly interested in the [[Spanish Civil War]].

** In a documentary made for the 2002 ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to the Future]]'' DVD, Zemeckis said he always felt the best [[Time Travel]] stories were ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Seven years later, he came out with his own version of the latter.

** Which brings us to [[Motion Capture]].

* [[James Cameron]] has [[Foot Focus]] and many a [[Action Girl]] in his films.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food|Coffee?]] [[Coleman Francis]] [[The Skydivers|loves coffee!]]

 

== Literature ==

* [[Peter David]] has a number of these. Many of his ''[[Star Trek]]'' books at least once mention Alexander the Great, for instance.

 

* British comedian [[Rik Mayall]] seems to like politics. Various references to the subject pop up in pretty much every episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Filthy Rich & Catflap]]'' and ''[[Bottom]]''. So playing the lead role in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' must have been a dream come true for him.

* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]—both the actor and character—likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].

 

 

* Jhonen Vasquez (''[[Invader Zim]]'' and ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'') gives frequent homages to ''[[Alien]]'', ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' (both the original and [[David Cronenberg]]'s version), ''[[Scanners]]'', and video games in his comics/ TV show. He's also a fan of [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]], space in general, [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Body Horror]], and certain words, most notably: ''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|doom]]'', ''cheese'', ''piggies'', ''tacos'', ''[[Everything's Better with Monkeys|monkeys]]'', ''moose'', ''noodles'', ''dooky'', ''nachos'', and ''bunnies''. He even stated at [[Comic Con]] '07 that he's fascinated with plotlines of people who are "controlled and used" by others (Johnny and the Doughboys, Devi and Sickness), and that he also hates dogs and little kids (sans [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Squee]]).

* [[Nick Cave]] loves flowers, violence, [[Nightmare Fuel]], poetry, and religious debate. He also enjoys portraying the [[Deep South]], although it would be a stretch to say that he loved it.

 

 

* Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.

** Mushrooms

 

 

* [[Shakespeare]] loves comparing things to gardening, falconry, and hunting with dogs. He also loves crossdressing characters, but that was a fairly common schtick at the time. When he was writing, women were not permitted to be actors, and as such [[Recursive Crossdressing|all of the female characters ''were'' men]], and he thought it would be funny to make jokes based on that.

** Not to mention his continual description of rebellion and social breakdown in terms of cannibalism/self-consumption. Although perhaps this belongs in the 'Miscellaneous Paraphilia' section.

** Estark is the boss of Mr. X Stage 3, complete with special commands in message box and boss music.

 

* ''[[Shortpacked]]'', a rare hobby-based and clean-subtexted example, takes this trope to a really fun extreme. Toys, especially [[Transformers]], had managed to sneak into the earlier webcomics of David Willis, and this is a Webcomic set in a toy store, written by a toy collector. Do the math. He parodied the sexual form trope with one panel where his girlfriend, in-universe, appeared to be wearing a skimpy [[Transformers Armada|Hot Shot]] costume.

* ''[[Fans]]!'' is a little too vehement in its defense of fanboys. Claim that they're valuable, intelligent and worthwhile human beings, fine. Claim that fanboys have the specific combination of strengths that makes them the only ones capable of defending Earth, and that the biggest, geekiest fanboys alive will be revered by future generations as heroes who made all of society possible... that's taking things a bit too far.

** Not to mention main characters who logically shouldn't be able to talk but do. Like Stewie, Klaus, and Tim the bear.

* Brad Bird works the number A113—a reference to a room at CalArts used by animation and graphic design students—into all of his projects: ''Family Dog'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episodes, ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]''. This has since become a widespread animation in-joke.

 

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